Alampallam Venkatachalaiyer Balakrishnan (1922-2015) was an American applied mathematician and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Balakrishnan grew up in Chennai, India, and entered the University of Madras in the early 1940s.
While there he earned a scholarship from the Indian government to study in the United States and learn to produce documentaries.
[3] He has received honors and awards from the International Federation of Information Processing Society (1977), NASA (1978, 1992,1995, and 1996), and, in 1980, the Guillemin Prize in recognition of the major impact that his original contributions have had in setting the research direction of communications and control.
“Bal” Balakrishnan Chair of the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering.